Miro and Solly's Wasp Nest

In room five Miro brought in a wasp nest that was in a cardboard box. He found it at home while he was picking berries and saw wasps flying in and out of an area. He went over and told his dad. His dad then poisoned the wasp nest with petrol.  He found five wasp nests and brought the smallest one in. After he brought it in we started to write about it. We had to describe the wasp nest in different ways of what it looks like, what the wasps do, and where it was found. Here is my writing of the wasp nest.

Miro’s Wasp Nest

Recently Miro brought in a wasp nest in a cardboard box that his dad had poisoned with petrol. He was picking berries in his garden when he realised wasps were flying in and out of an area.

The wasp nest is made out of chewed sawdust that the wasps chew from tree trunks. It looks like a big round oval with heaps of layers and in each layer there are layers of cells shaped as hexagons. It’s a light grey coloured nest with black and yellow wasps. The nest has at least five layers of cells where all the wasp eggs and larvae grow up. When the wasps go into the nest they will sometimes try to make eggs. The wasp nest feels like crumbled up Weetbix and thin paper. There are quite a number of dead wasps that were poisoned, but some larvae haven’t been killed by the petrol. There are baby wasps trying to escape their cells when they’re ready to come out. When the baby wasps escape their cells they will grow up and try to make more wasps and larvae. The wasp nest isn’t that big but it is about the size of a medium sized rock.

In conclusion I think that the wasp nest is quite big and reminds me of weetbix. The wasp nest has five layers of cells that the wasps create eggs in. The wasp nest has a golden tint to it. Inside the layer there are pillars that hold the cells up.

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